Carl Jacobson

Do you think you are some kind of new Frank Harris? someone asked me the other day. I had never thought about myself like that, but later I looked up his classic book “My Life and Loves”, which I remember having read as a teenager… and when re-reading the book, my feeling is actually that it is underrated.

But my intention here is not really to tell the story of my personal sexual escapades, but rather to illustrate some features of Thai culture in an anthropological context, with examples from my personal life.

The texts are fragments from my private diary, written without intention of publication. Given that the subject is relationships and sex, the texts are occasionally sexually explicit. It was never my intention to write pornography, but I understand that they may very well be read as such by some people.

And I have no problem with that!

CARL JACOBSON is a freelance writer with a background in cultural anthropology. He travelled to Southeast Asia 35 years ago, during the war in Viet Nam, married a Thai girl and stayed on in Thailand – as so many others did at the time! He has frequently returned to the subject of ‘prostitution’.

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Contact address: carljacobson@live.co.uk